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Sometimes, my kids are whiny brats and it makes me mad. Today is Monday, I just finished a big post that I didn’t want to delete so I wrote this immediately afterwards.

My son is in time out because he was crying obnoxiously. Why? Because he didn’t want to clean his room, and if he didn’t get it done by snack time, he was going to have to wait till lunch to eat, and not get a snack.

I told both children after breakfast that they would have till lunch to clean their rooms. If they weren’t clean, whatever was on the floor was going into the garage for at least 2 weeks. If they finished by snack time, they could have a snack, if not, they’d have to wait till lunch to eat at which time I’d go in with the trash bags.

Suzanne decided early that she just didn’t want to put everything where it belonged. So I asked her if she’d like to go ahead and put it in garbage sacks and put it in the garage. She said yes. She’s quietly putting the toys in the sacks, not at all upset that she won’t have her toys for 2 weeks or more. Well, alrighty then, put them toys in the trash bags. You have too many anyway.

Now E is bawling because he won’t finish in time to have a snack. I just lost it. I told him to stand in time out till he could calm down. After a couple of minutes of him crying, I finally exploded:

“Why are you crying??!! Because you might miss snack time and you won’t have your room cleaned in time?? Well, get over it! I didn’t say you wouldn’t eat today! There are some kids who never get snack time! They don’t even have food in the house! Do you realize how lucky you are that we Even Have Snack food?!? Do you realize some kids don’t eat ALL DAY!!?!

And also! Do you know that some kids don’t have toys!!??! You are lucky to have SO Many Toys! It’s YOUR job to take care of them and put them up when you are finished playing with them. YOU have to put them up. I didn’t say that you weren’t going to eat today, and I didn’t say I was going to throw away your toys if you didn’t finish in time. They are going into the garage for 2 weeks!! Now you just stay in time out till you calm down. Then I’ll let you clean your room, or I’ll get you a trash bag to start packing it for the garage, it’s your choice.”

Sometimes I just get so mad at how ungrateful all kids are and then when I see my own kids act that way it makes me even madder. It’s hard to see your own kids being spoiled brats and KNOW that they are acting that way. The only thing that helps is that they don’t ALWays act that way. Hopefully, by noon, I’ll see the lovable kids again. Meanwhile, the brat is still here, the mommy orge is trying to calm down, and the other one who doesn’t even care where her toys go is begging me to take the bags out of her room now.

They’ll be lucky if they make it back into the bedrooms in 2 weeks. I might just ‘forget’ they are there and leave them till the next yard sale. ARGH!